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wrenb ([personal profile] wrenb) wrote2007-03-05 12:22 pm
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Phishing: It's not just for email anymore

I just got a phishing telephone call at my office. I'm used to telemarketers (the Do-Not-Call apparently doesn't apply to business numbers) and I know about phishing in email. But this is a new one on me.

Her: "Hi, this is Jill. I'm calling about your copy machine.  I just need to know the model number on the front of it."
Me: "Sure. Can you just tell me what company you're calling from?"
Her: long silence followed by dial tone

If she had said she was from my copier service I'd have been happy to give her the information she wanted!  I wonder where she was calling from and why.

[identity profile] ricevermicelli.livejournal.com 2007-03-05 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
My non-government bosses let me be mean to telemarketers too. Within reason, of course. Usually, it doesn't take much to get rid of them so there's no need.
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[identity profile] wrenb.livejournal.com 2007-03-05 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone gets to be mean to telemarketers. It's like a code of conduct.

I worked Phonathon for 2 years in college, so I always try to be polite to telemarketers, even when I hang up on them.

[identity profile] ricevermicelli.livejournal.com 2007-03-05 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You should see what I get to do to people who think that if they tell me their proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, I can tell them whether it's right.